Author Topic: New To OS/2 and could use general help and resources  (Read 1621 times)

iainnitro

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Greetings:

May I first say that I am very impressed with your choice in Forums software :-)  http://www.jmikeneedham.net/forums

I am brand new to OS/2 and installed Warp 3 on my IBM Model 8595 at home just yesterday.  I am looking at putting a BBS system online (again) using OS/2 as the base OS and plan to use it via telnet.

I am currently stuck in the part where my NIC (the Microchannel 3Com 3C523MC) is not being seen by the system and I now have the drivers for the card but need to install them and I am not sure if that is straight forward or not?

Generally, I am a newbie (to OS/2) but an "old hat" in Linux/UNIX, Macintosh and of course DOS/Windows.

I could use a lot of direction and hope that this community will be a good resource.  If you would be willing to help me track down software I need and offer general help, feel free to PM me here or visit my Forums and utilize the OS/2 area of my board and PM me there.

Email me directly via the link on my blog which is http://www.jmikeneedham.net

Hope this community will be a lot of help as I venture into this part of my vintage computing hobby.

Please feel free to interact with me as you will!

Thanks in advance,

Mike Needham


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Re: New To OS/2 and could use general help and resources
« Reply #1 on: 2009.04.28, 19:17:08 »
Sometimes I have to support Warp 3 on Microchannel for clients. I've used that network many times -- it's a good choice. To get it to work, you need to remember that Microchannel machines need to know about the cards you plug in. You'll need to have a reference diskette. You should be able to access the system programs at boot -- on a later machine like yours, the system programs should be on the hard drive. If you don't have a reference diskette, google for it. PS/2 fans have posted the reference diskettes for download.

Now to add the device driver, you'll need to make sure you have installed Warp 3 Connect. If you didn't, go get a copy of Warp 3 Connect and install that instead of Warp 3. It will detect your network card, and install drivers for it. Once you're running, you'll have a full suite of TCP/IP programs that are pretty old, but work. Don't fool around with the plain Warp 3, it's not worth it because it has no support for network cards. Warp 3 Connect would be perfect for your chosen hardware.

Of course, you could also run eComStation on a modern computer, but that doesn't sound like what you want to do.
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